2003-04-16 - 7:51 p.m.
As I was hoeing out the potatos and onions today I got to thinking. All my life I was told you need an education or you'll never ammount to anything. Go to college so you can get a GOOD job. Now just what is a good job? What makes one job good and another bad? As best I can tell a good job means one where you don't have to do physical labor. "I work with my head", is the motto of folks with "good" jobs. Now just where does that leave the rest of us? If you work with your hands and earn your bread by the sweat of your brow why are you judged to have a bad job? Who decided this anyway? I don't remember hearing of a national good job, bad job referendum, yet it is put forward as an undisputable fact that no doubt can be found in the Bible in the Book of "I Think So" chapter 1 verse 1.
The oddest thing to me is that those with the "good" jobs spent a lot of years in College studying so they could land that job. They did it so they wouldn't have to get a job involving physical labor. They declare this shows their superior intelect and wisdom, yet at the end of the day I go in and rest from my labors and where do the "good" job folks go? Off to the health club they go to exercise and build up a sweat. Why, if I started handing out hoes and set "good" job people to hoeing my corn to the beat of some popular song and charged them good money to do it I believe I could get a bunch of them to sign up. Farmer Ed's Hoercize class I'd call it.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm a college graduate mtself. I just hope the next time you see someone doing good hard honest labor you won't point and tell your kids, "if you don't study hard you'll wind up like that", as though it was some kind of prison sentence. There's a verse in the bible in the book of Ecclesiastes that's very interesting. In chapter 5 verse 12 it says "The sleep of a labouring man is sweet wether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.". There is something to be said for good, hard physical work. It has it's blessings too. Well I told you I was just thinking.
